tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post320137149681510450..comments2024-01-26T17:29:53.415-05:00Comments on Reader's Almanac: Sarah Orne Jewett, “unsurpassed chronicler and interpreter of women’s lives”The Library of Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17586915922688562543noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post-57263327112133854702010-09-08T11:56:17.674-04:002010-09-08T11:56:17.674-04:00I have not yet read Olive Kitteridge, but I did fi...I have not yet read <i>Olive Kitteridge</i>, but I did find this comment on the <a href="http://zhiv.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/olive-kitteredge-elizabeth-strout/" rel="nofollow">blog of a reader</a> who, after reading Strout's novel, "wanted something more, a greater unity, a more ambitious story and plot, or a more unified plotlessness (as in <i>Country of the Pointed Firs</i>)."The Library of Americahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17586915922688562543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post-60051709269831488262010-09-08T11:44:23.686-04:002010-09-08T11:44:23.686-04:00I have not read any of Jewett's work, but cons...I have not read any of Jewett's work, but considering your description here of <i>The Country of Pointed Firs</i>, her most acclaimed work seems to be a precursor to the Pulitzer Prize winning collection, <i>Olive Kitteridge</i> by Elizabeth Strout. Does this similarity run any deeper than the setting, Maine, and the form, a series of connected vignettes?M. Buozishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05701232367959904246noreply@blogger.com